The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday May 13, 2015 presented in court the result of polygraph test conducted on Mrs. Rosulu Idowu Oluronke.
Mrs. Oluronke is a former Lagos Court Registrar standing trial for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi of $300,000.
EFCC’s polygraph expert and prosecution witness, Chinedu Enanya, who addressed the court on the result of the tests, said they revealed that the defendant was deceitful.
According to him, “the polygraph tests, after each examination, usually show whether the examinee was truthful or deceitful when asked relevant questions”. He explained that the tests could be pre-texts; in-texts and pro-tests.
Enanya said that both relevant and irrelevant questions were asked in running the tests. After the tests, analysis was done and scores recorded. He said the result revealed that Oluronke was deceitful.
A further test was, according to him, conducted to enable the defendant respond to the outcome of the tests. On the strength of the tests, four documents presented before the court by the prosecution were admitted as exhibits.
The documents are: EFCC polygraph consent form, certification of identification; copy of polygraph chart and polygraph report.
Under cross examination by defence counsel , K. O Osinowo, Enanya informed the court that a legal representative of the defendant came around for the polygraph test, but was not allowed into the examination room, so as not to distract the defendant. He told the court that no further test was conducted after the polygraph result came out.
Justice Lawal Akapo adjourned the matter till June 8, 9, and 10, 2015 for continuation of trial.
Ajudua and the defendant, were initially arraigned by the EFCC before Justice Ipaye, but the second defendant, who is a public servant requested for separation of the charges and expeditious trial.
Oluronke, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence. The EFCC alleged that she helped Ajudua to obtain the money from Bamaiyi between November 2004 and June 2005 while both of them were at Kirikiri Prison for separate offences, by claiming that it represented the professional fees charged by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) to handle his case.
